by jessicawilbanks@gmail.com | Nov 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
My most recent interview over at Catapult focuses on Niki Herd’s poem “Bird.” “Bird” was originally published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series. Niki Herd is the author of The Language of Shedding Skin and the coeditor (with Meg Day) of...
by jessicawilbanks@gmail.com | Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Through my day job, I recently had the chance to work with Angela Blanchard, the former head of BakerRipley here in Houston and an expert in community development. Angela is a big believer in appreciative inquiry: an approach that recognizes and builds on strengths...
by jessicawilbanks@gmail.com | Jul 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
This month’s interview over at Catapult focuses on Leesa Cross-Smith’s short story “Whiskey & Ribbons,” which was published in Carve magazine after winning the Editor’s Choice Award for the 2011 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, and which later became a novel...
by jessicawilbanks@gmail.com | Apr 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Eudora Welty once said, “Always be sure you get your moon in the right part of the sky.” That was always how I thought of research. Research was fact-checking. Research was stagnant. There was nothing creative about it. My approach changed ten...
by jessicawilbanks@gmail.com | Mar 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
My March 2021 newsletter just went out to subscribers. To sign up, click here. This Wednesday night (March 24th), I’m teaching a virtual class on nonfiction book proposals. For a lot of people, writing a book proposal probably feels a lot like doing your taxes:...
by jessicawilbanks@gmail.com | Feb 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
My February 2021 newsletter just went out to subscribers. To sign up, click here. When my memoir came out a few years ago, I did an inventory of all the writing projects I could focus on. I had a bunch of essays in various stages of development, the first draft of a...
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